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We use runs on for our runners now. https://runs-on.com/

Our app isn’t Rust, but our agentic engineering requires lots of various tests. I can’t imagine using GitHub’s terribly slow runners after migrating. Having faster CI compute would reduce a big negative of Rust

This already exists and it’s called loco

https://loco.rs/

The price of the goods being shipped. Perhaps, subsidized trucking reduces incentives for rail infrastructure which is cheaper transportation in the long run.

The judge “concluding the company is legally responsible for the conduct of its driver”.

I’m not a layer, but doesn’t that open up a precedent where others could be more willing sue Uber now for damages caused by their driver?

For better or worse, the defense the US provides will no longer be used as leverage for economic agreements across the EU and the Middle East.

We’ve been using runs on for maybe a year now. It’s a managed service for self hosted runners. Pretty great if you want to get off expensive GH actions boxes and do self hosting but don’t have the time to manage it yourself.

https://runs-on.com/

It’s different because those places typically provide jobs for the people in the surrounding area. Data centers don’t employ enough people to provide an economic benefit for the people that live near them.

Great point, inference is just one variable. It’d be really great to know how much those tasks costs in inference. I’m assuming they cost significantly higher than human labor. Therefore, the inference cost is so high that it makes the other variables seem irrelevant for the time being.

Robotics with AI is the real revolution.

Today, humans convert their labor to capital. Capital holders need labor (humans) to acquire more capital. When the price of inference for these robots becomes less than the price of labor then capital holders don’t need labor.

Obviously, AI impacts non-manual labor too, but a significant portion of the world population does manual labor.

3090 was released six years ago and is still very relevant for running models locally.

> You uncover a better design and submit a string of diffs not only implementing the task but simplifying other parts of the code too. Bonus points for doing this before you implement (make the hard change easy then make the easy change).

The last part of this really stands out. A high performer understands that software is malleable. However, the way you shape it, when things change, and how much is changed at one time matters a lot

Why’s that? What would be the alternative?

Data centers are critical infrastructure and having them near military bases could be seen as a security benefit.

The AWS status page still shows UAE as disrupted https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Iroh has been amazing to work with and the engineers are so nice in the discord channel. The pragmatic approach to making p2p just work has been easy to understand. Their YouTube channel has great content too. Congrats on v1!

https://youtube.com/@n0computer

Do you have any recommendations for a live digest tool?

Do you have any recommendations for books on the history of movable type?

Patrick Rucker, one of the authors, spent time at our company, Claimable, last fall so he could investigate this issue further. Claimable is a startup where we leverage AI to help people appeal their health insurance denials. Ask me anything, I work in this space every day.

https://www.getclaimable.com/

Which brand did you get? I’ve always been hesitant to get one, I’d like one that I could reduce the amount of data sent out to the cloud

Do all drones do this now? Is this required by law for manufacturers to implement?

Regardless of how you feel about content moderation, 48 hours is a ridiculously long time given what AI can do today. That “bad” image could have been propagated around the world to millions of people in that time. It can and should be removed in minutes because AI can evaluate the “bad” image quickly and a human moderator isn’t required anymore. However, the compute costs would eat into profits…

Again, I’m not judging about content moderation, but this is an extremely weak initiative.

This holiday season, I wouldn’t buy high priced high quality items from Amazon due to concerns about counterfeit. I probably still won’t even after they’ve made this change. DTC from quality producers now have decent websites, free shipping, and good customer service. If I’m going to buy a premium expensive product, why risk it.

> how many of the people backing the protest are basically holocaust deniers

I don’t understand this? My assumption is that hardliners in Iran would be holocaust deniers and not want the regime to fall?

Software that connects your own personal devices to form a p2p mesh network and also connects your friends personal mesh network. On top of that technology, the ability to chat, share media, or any other basic computing done between friends. Data is synced between devices. The goal is to make the underlying tech mostly invisible to the users. They pair devices and start doing standard software things.

> We need to support farmers because a market spread too thin on farming means people would starve.

People would not starve if we stopped the ethanol mandate. In fact, corn prices would fall because the government would no longer force ethanol to be mixed with oil. Less demand would decrease the price.

I guess I’ll start to look at an alternative to GitHub self hosted runners.

It’s been awhile since I looked. What’s a good alternative?

How would we effectively regulate social media? Being the regulator could be a very powerful political tool and used to capture or maintain political power.

It’s been about a year since I looked into this sort of thing, but molmo will give you x,y coordinates. I hacked together a project about it. I also think Microsoft’s omniparser is good at finding coordinates too.

https://huggingface.co/allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924

https://github.com/logankeenan/george

https://github.com/microsoft/OmniParser

I had no idea Romanization of Perian was a thing. Thanks for sharing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Persian

The BBC article spelled the dam's name wrong in their interactive image. It's Latyan Dam if anyone else wanted to look up more on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latyan_Dam https://maps.app.goo.gl/UzQrPMR4iHRdbsuP7

Edit: TIL there can be different translations/spellings of Persian to English

Using Rust instead of a Go would provide a smaller binary since it doesn't need a runtime. Compared to JavaScript apps, it's not terrible but also not great. One thing WASM has over JS is that it can decode and compile code in parallel across multiple threads as it streams in.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa...